Using future in the past

Sometimes we are talking about a past event and we want to refer to something that happened in the future at that particular point in the past. When we want to express future in the past, we use the past of the normal future forms. (To review the future forms, ⇒ See B2 Grammar » Future forms – expressing future time).

Check the following sentences to see the future forms and their corresponding past forms.

We can also talk about future in the past using other future expressions. Check the table below. (To review other ways of expressing future forms, ⇒ See B2 Grammar » Other ways to express future)